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Subject:Re: Cigarette Lighter
From:vw woody
Date:Wed, 9 Apr 2014 12:09:29 -0500

Sorry...it's an '89

      woody 
"keep on pushin"

> Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 10:07:58 -0700
> From: musomuso@GMAIL.COM
> Subject: Re: Cigarette Lighter
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> 
> Hi Woody.
> 
> What year Vanagon again?
> 
> There should be an OEM connector between wire from fuse box and
> various loads. Bentely shows connector having red wires in-out. Maybe
> came loose?
> 
> Or, PO + wiring to stereo is also a junction to cig socket etc? Maybe
> that junction came loose?
> 
> Is ground ok? (at "star" near above fuse panel)
> 
> Neil.
> 
> On 4/9/14, vw woody <vwwoody@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> > ....Well, the wires are barely long enough for
> > me to crimp on the connectors needed to combine the 2 brown wires and the 2
> > red wires.I didn't feel like removing the stereo.In pulling the wires out of
> > the dash to crimp on the female connectors I must have pulled something
> > loose. For the life of me I cannot figure out which connection I messed up.
> > This circuit is suppose to be hot at all times, #3 fuse is fine. Replaced it
> > anyway. I now have no power to everything on the #3 fuse ( interior
> > lights,clock,radio, lighter) Any help would be VERY much appreciated. I
> > don't ask for help very often, but this easy fix has been anything but easy
> > for me. At this point I could run a whole new wire , but I would rather keep
> > it stock. I don't have a good full size schematic and the Bentley schematic
> > is hard for me to decipher.
> > I have the instrument panel exposed, stereo out, glove box out , and fuse
> > box lowered , and I can't find any loose connections.
> >
> > Thank you in advance !!!!
> >
> >       woody
> > "keep on pushin"
> 
> 
> --
> Neil n
> 
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